Maxim is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MAXIM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a brief expression of a general truth, principle, or rule of conduct
• a short, pithy statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct
• An established principle or proposition; a condensed proposition of important practical truth; an axiom of practical wisdom; an adage; a proverb; an aphorism.
• The longest note formerly used, equal to two longs, or four breves; a large.
• a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits
• English inventor (born in the United States) who invented the Maxim gun that was used in World War I (1840-1916)
• general truth or principle
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a brief statement of a general truth or principle

Words related to MAXIM

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Words that contain MAXIM

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How to use MAXIM in a sentence

• Nor can any maxim or proposition in the world make him know it clearer or surer than he did before, and without any such general rule.
• They could be ignored by the porcelain men, under the maxim, that objects not appearing, and not existing, are governed by the same logical construction.
• As a maxim, the Principle of Sincerity is admitted.
• Especially does this maxim apply to the return of the service.
• Thus the child has come off conqueror, and set it down as a maxim, that, for the future, he may do just as he pleases with his mother.
• It was a fundamental maxim of the Lacedaemonian commonwealth, that the post of admiral should not be conferred twice on the same person.
• The particular and concrete is not only as clear and certain as the general maxim, but better known than this, as well as earlier and more easily perceived.
• They often take the form of allegory, and in this shape appear designed to teach some truth or illustrate some maxim.
• Gustavus Adolphus now turned his whole attention to Frankfort, for it was his constant maxim to cover his rear by the friendship and possession of the more important towns.
• I need hardly remark, that even if the consent were not a mere fiction, this maxim is not superior in authority to the others which it is brought in to supersede.
• It was then a common maxim that the peculiar characteristics of the negro absolutely required a government of terror and brute force.
• Lay this maxim to heart, then, that it is not the potential greatness of those we benefit, but of those we injure, which causes apprehension.
• Yet it was a maxim which was very much acted upon by modern Englishmen a generation or two back.
• He did not, however, take any advantage of his position during the repast, neither did he talk much, his maxim being to let his meat stop his mouth.
• Thus, night after night, with lights out, we steamed along our northward track, the days being spent in drill and ball firing with rifles and the Maxim guns.
• Our men, in charging it, would be exposed to a rifle and Maxim fire for at least 800 yards.
• And then I felt altogether the force of the maxim of St.
• The maxim of hereditary indefeisible right was at length renounced by a free parliament.
• Under the Articles of Confederation this maxim of government had been disregarded.
• President, it was a maxim of the civil law, that, between slavery and freedom, freedom should always be presumed, and slavery must always be proved.
• So now, the rupture between Catherine Flint and Maxim Waldron was precipitated by a single unguarded oath.
• This is the universal Indian maxim from Nova Zembla to Cape Horn.
• This view is apparently based on the dangerous maxim that where the execution of a picture is inferior to the conception, the work is presumably a copy.
• This maxim may be, as I believe it is, false with regard to the origin of religion.
• Economy was then announced as a maxim of the reign.
• Nay, they did not spare from the operation of this maxim, the scriptures themselves.
• Captain Emerson with one company of the Regiment which had been told off as escort to the Maxim guns, advanced with the leading company of the Inniskillings.
• This fact becomes to him a rule, a principle, a maxim, which has universal application.
• It is becoming an accepted maxim that industry should bear its own charges, should pay its own way.
• But this maxim, or definition, or whatever else it may be, sets facts at defiance.
• Its great maxim was to preserve the existing condition.

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